LaBudde Creek: Visions of Its Past EarthCache
LaBudde Creek: Visions of Its Past
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Location Elkhart Lake, LaBudde Creek State Fishery Area
This is not your typical geocache; it is an EarthCache. Instead of looking
for a “cache container” you will be brought to a geological feature.
ABOUT THIS LOCATION This EarthCache is not very far from the Ice Age Trail in the LaBudde Creek State Fishery Area near the community of Elkhart Lake in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. (This 3.5 mile LaBudde Creek Segment of the Ice Age Trail was constructed in 2010.) Check hunting seasons! A parking lot is just east of Hwy. 67 on the north side of Garton Road (N 43 49.149 W 087 59.558 ). Take the Ice Age Trail that heads northward a short distance, then the left trail to the coordinates with a view of a geological feature created by glacial meltwater. For question 3 refer to text below. Bring compass and thermometer on a 10 foot string and use IAT map from box.
EARTHCACHE INFORMATION To receive credit for this EarthCache complete the following: 1. Photos are optional but one with your GPS (of you/group if possible) with the channel or creek in the background is appreciated. Send it with log-in. 2. and 3. E-mail to me answers to the following: 2a. The glacial stream flowed here from R to L or L to R which would be ______to______ (direction). 2b. Describe this channel when it carried maximum meltwater flow. 2c. Do you think the amount of water was or was not the same for a 24-hour period and why? 3a. At LaBudde Creek the direction of flow is _____ to _____(direction). Please check if there are any trout. I saw ____ trout that were about _____ inches long. 3b. This creek is an example of ______, but trout like it because it is____ degrees due to its major source being _______. 3c. The elevation at the creek is _____ and at the top of the channel it is ____ for a height of _____. You do NOT need to wait for confirmation from me before logging your find. Please make no reference to these answers in your log.
GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION WELCOME to a wonderland of world-famous glacially created geologic features. The focus here is a geologic feature called the LaBudde Channel that was formed by glacial meltwater. This channel is along the eastern edge of the Kettle Interlobate Moraine and the western edge of the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. For the past thousands of years this scene may have changed little except as a result of the seasons. According to the Geologic Time Scale, that recent time of ten thousand years is the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Age. Most of the Quaternary consists of the Pleistocene Epoch, from 1.8 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene about twenty-four glacial and interglacial cycles traversed vast regions of the world, Wisconsin included. The last of those major advances,100,000 to 10,000 years ago, is called the Wisconsin Glaciation due to the many fine glacial features in the state.
AT the coordinates envision the channel area covered with this glacier and all the glacial processes at work! Before 10,000 years ago the vision here becomes one of a melting glacier with a raging, forceful river of meltwater racing into and eroding the channel from the northeast toward the southwest. As the glacier retreats and there is less meltwater, the view changes to one of a braided stream that is depositing sand and gravel across its floodplain. In this manner, some of Wisconsin's larger river valleys received over 300 feet of sand and gravel! Next, contemplate a scene of transition from Ice Age to postglacial with woolly mammoths, caribou, and musk-ox on the treeless tundra with mosses, lichens, and short, leafy and flowering plants, shrinking permafrost, and smaller stream. The Paleo-Indians were not far behind. The boreal forest followed with the mastodon, giant beaver, wood buffalo, elk, and other animals. Then, more recently, in this large LaBudde Channel shaded by hardwoods, there is a spring-fed, under-fit creek with trout!
NEXT to several roads LaBudde Creek can be observed. There is a parking lot on the north side of Hwy. A just east of Little Elkhart Lake Road (N 43 50.012 W 087 58.827). The Ice Age Trail is along the road here, and the creek flows under the road. Please use caution. Take the temperature of the creek on the south side of Hwy A and note elevation at the creek and going up the east bank of the channel (south on Little Elkhart Lake Road) the elevation at the top. Refer to question 3.
The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to Dan Weidert of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained at: (visit link)
I want to thank my wonderful mom~Carol aka gr@nny for her assistance in this earthcache. Thanks for helping me find a unique geological feature to use for my third earthcache in order to qualify me as a Platinum EarthCache Master. Love ya Mom!
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